[Secure-testing-team] Bug#858324: binutils: CVE-2017-7210

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: binutils
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21157

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for binutils.

CVE-2017-7210[0]:
| objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to multiple heap-based
| buffer over-reads (of size 1 and size 8) while handling corrupt STABS
| enum type strings in a crafted object file, leading to program crash.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7210
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7210

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore